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Wikipedia decline

the encyclopedia that anyone can edit on the condition that said person meets the requirements laid out in Wikipedia Code 234.56, subsections A34-A58, A65, B7 (codicil 5674), and follows the procedures specified in Wikipedia Statutes 31 – 1007 as well as Secret Wikipedia Scroll SC72 (Wikipedia Decoder Ring required).”

2007-10-10:

There’s a war going on behind the pages of Wikipedia. Submission of new articles is slowing to a trickle where in previous years it was flood, and the discussion pages are increasingly filled with arguments and cryptic references to policy documents. The rise of the deletionists is threatening the hitherto peaceful growth of the world’s most popular information source.

the philosophical split of our times, deletionists vs inclusionists

The Outsourced Life

I decided I needed to outsource my worry. For the last few weeks I’ve been tearing my hair out because a business deal is taking far too long to close. I asked Honey if she would be interested in tearing her hair out in my stead. Just for a few minutes a day. She thought it was a wonderful idea. “I will worry about this every day,” she wrote. “Do not worry.”

i would totally pay for someone to do all the nonsense for various bureaucracies.

Grammar

Years ago I was on the periphery of a massive standardization effort and very very late in the process a feature in the spec was found to be, well, unimplementable. So under the guise of a “grammar fix” the spec was revised to change a “will” to a “will not.”

Media at Work

After she had already declined to get a press pass several times, organizers fooled her, leading her to believe that she could get video of a federal agent being outed on the conference hall floor.

pro media = hacks, more often than not.